When It Finally Hits You Quotes

#1. How can you be in love with someone for forever and not be willing to take a chance when it finally hits you in the face like a linebacker?

Miranda Kenneally

#2. Fame is always a shock to the system; there's no school to go to, there are no books to read, and when it hits you, it's a surprise. You could be working for 10, 20 years and when it finally hits you, you get knocked down.

Barry Manilow

#3. I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.

Matthew McConaughey

#4. Touch'd with miseries
She seem'd at once, some penanced lady elf,
Some demon's mistress, or the demon's self.
- Lamia (John Keats)

John Keats

#5. My favorite place in the world is next to you.

Charlotte Eriksson

#6. Well, that's the way democracy works. We have to build this Europe with the material we have at our disposal. And this material is national democracy.

Timothy Garton Ash

#7. Whatever our place allotted to us by Providence that for us is the post of honor and duty. God estimates us, not by the position we are in, but by the way in which we fill it.

Tryon Edwards

#8. But I don't think of you.

(Howard Roark)

Ayn Rand

#9. As soon as you close your eyes, the adventure of sleep begins."

-from "A Man Asleep

Georges Perec

#10. The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost are and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#11. You're saying, "I'm gonna do this thing," and you have to be aware, as a rational human being, that you may not be allowed back in.

M. Night Shyamalan

#12. to explore the inner country of his own soul.

Jon Krakauer

#13. We finally figured out that when you set off a nuke in space, that's when the EMP effect really kicks in, as the energy burst hits the upper atmosphere. It becomes like a pebble triggering an avalanche, the electrical disturbances magnifying. It's in the report. It's called the 'Compton Effect.

William R. Forstchen

#14. That's when it hits me with a jolt. I sob uncontrollably. My mind is finally catching on, and it all comes rushing back to me.

Jen Khan

#15. I know nothing about God, except that His pleasure is as terrifying as His displeasure.

Jose Saramago

#16. It's not so much about writing the story of Christmas itself, as ingenious as it is. In reality, it's much more about writing the story of Christmas into the story of life so that it will become the story of life.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#17. If farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was raining, only to buy it back in the afternoon when the sun came out.

John Maynard Keynes

#18. Affairs with unavailable people are a heroin high before nausea hits. Like smack they are destined to disappoint.
They begin with magic. Then the chasing after magic.
And finally the MOURNING FOR MAGIC.

Merri Lisa Johnson

#19. I have a dread of sounding pretentious and try not to talk too much about what I do.

James Herbert

#20. Part of the challenge of being a girl living in the 21st Century, looking back, the danger is to not judge your character by your own standards.

Zoe Kazan